Template:Judging

Team UT Knoxville

UTK
iGEM

Bronze Medal

  • We registered our team and ready to go to the Jamboree in Boston.
  • All deliverable requirements have been met.
  • Our attributions are placed on the notebooks section of our wiki.
  • We added the following parts to the registry: BBa_K1966000, BBa_K1966001, BBa_K1966003, BBa_K1966004.

Silver Medal

  • We were able to characterize the function of following parts: BBa_K1966000, BBa_K1966001, BBa_K1966003.
  • Collaboration: We collaborated with the University of Georgia (UGA) iGEM team on their Formaldehyde Single Cell Project. Details of contribution can be found on our collaborations tab.
  • We worked with various institutions to organize multiple outreach events in the Knoxville area. Details can be found on the outreach tab of our wiki.

Gold Medal

  • Proof of Concept: We were able to create a device capable of degrading toluene and converting it to benzylaldehyde using the xylA xylM holoenzyme to acquire a benzyl alcohol which is then converted to a benzylaldehyde using xylB.
  • Demonstrate Your Work: In the laboratory we were able to show that our toluene degrading organism was capable of producing benzyl alcohol and benzylaldehyde from the real-world substrates of gasoline and a simulated form of BTX. Thus, we showed that our system was capable of functioning under the complex chemical stresses it would be exposed to in the field as a bioremediator and in industry as a production module.